All 4 Uses of
corroborate
in
Bleak House
- If your ladyship would wish to have the boy produced in corroboration of this statement, I can lay my hand upon him at any time.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- How this account of Mr. Swills is entirely corroborated by two intelligent married females residing in the same court and known respectively by the names of Mrs. Piper and Mrs. Perkins, both of whom observed the foetid effluvia and regarded them as being emitted from the premises in the occupation of Krook, the unfortunate deceased.†
Chpt 31-33
- Fodere and Mere, two pestilent Frenchmen who WOULD investigate the subject; and further, of the corroborative testimony of Monsieur Le Cat, a rather celebrated French surgeon once upon a time, who had the unpoliteness to live in a house where such a case occurred and even to write an account of it—still they regard the late Mr. Krook's obstinacy in going out of the world by any such by-way as wholly unjustifiable and personally offensive.†
Chpt 31-33
- This corroborated the apprehensions I had formed, when he began to look at direction-posts, and to leave the carriage at cross roads for a quarter of an hour at a time while he explored them.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(corroborate) to support an opinion -- typically with additional evidence or testimony